Re: Application Errors - Tried EVERYTHING - PLEASE HELP!!!!

From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:36:51 -0700

I read a bit of "I like toys..." response, but they yelling part isn't
really my problem. It is harder (for me at least) to read when
everything is in CAPS LOCKS. I could care less if it was rude or
shouting as much as it is a "pay more attention to me because I'm
special" way of typing and difficult to read. This is the real reason
most people will pass over a message like this.

As for your problem, how are the temperatures inside your computer. If
even a clean install of Windows is "crashing" (which you need to
define), then there is something wrong with the hardware physically.
You may want to get another stick of memory to compliment the existing
stick as it will not only help improve system performance, but take a
little load off the CPU/HD.

I did actually read into your post further than just the caps, but much
of the content was not helpful unless we actually had the source code to
work with. The one thing that should have been in Caps or pointed out
better was this:
"These crashes go for ANY Multimedia program and ONLY
Multimedia programs (non-audio/video programs seem to work
fine)."

There are three possibilities here. First, the software. Second, the
drivers. Finally, the physical hardware. If it is just encoding, it is
most likely the software since your computer was able to perform burn in
tests without heat issues.

Try this:

Boot off the XP CD, delete the partition, create a new partition, format
NTFS {Quick), Install Windows (with SP1a or SP2 slipstreamed if you
like), then install the latest version of VirtualDub. Try using that to
convert a video file to something else. 

----
Nathan McNulty
I like toys and cake wrote:
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:23be01c4a4c7$0a4afbf0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> 
> 
>>Second...the whole "CAPS LOCK IS RUDE" thing is reserved
>>for children who make their lives online, social and
>>otherwise...since only children or those with child-like
>>thoughts would ever feel the need to have their
>>TEXT "shout" at someone they never met (nor will ever
>>meet) from across the country.
> 
> 
> Firstly the ettiquette of reserving caps for shouting was introduced 
> by bearded middle aged geeks not children.
> 
> Secondly "....at someone they never met (nor will ever meet) from 
> across the country" country? you're American right?
> 
> 
>>Since I cannot imagine a situation where a mature person
>>would ever feel the need to "text scream" at someone, I
>>use capital letters like the rest of the sane world does
>>(aside from standard capitalization)...to express
>>importance or otherwise draw attention to the words
>>written in capitals.
>>
> 
> 
> Since you seem to have no regard for the well established customs of 
> USENET, why not go the whole hog and use HTML so you can differentiate 
> between information and a plea for help?
> 
> As for your problem it seems you have tried every software 
> troubleshooting route ever invented plus a few more. I would like to 
> suggest that either your RAM is in fact failing despite the passed 
> tests ( I have had sticks pass memtest shortly before falling over) or 
> more likely, you mentioned no hardware changes except a new hard disk, 
> your system has 4 hard drives and an optical drive all on a system 
> that looks to be a couple of years old (originally) at least is your 
> power supply original? It could be possible that unless you do in fact 
> have at least a 400W PSU that too much power is being drawn by the 
> drives causing the CPU and Memory to be underpowered when they are 
> doing intensive Multimedia Tasks. Even though you have run the system 
> with less drives in and still got the same unfortunate result it may 
> be possible that the PSU or perhaps even the motherboard has suffered 
> some minor little error as a result that is now causing your problems. 
> I may be way off but PSU's are cheap enough to give it a try. 
> 
>

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